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# Re: New patch release 1.8.0p5 of LambdaMOO server

- Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 20:04:41 PDT
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    Followup to:  <96May12.144308pdt.230921@mu.parc.xerox.com>
    By author:    Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
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    >
    > -- Fixed backward-compatibility problem in 1.8.0 where the semantically
    >    erroneous but syntactically correct expression
    > 	-"a string"
    >    stopped even compiling, let alone running.  (Thanks to Seth Rich for
    >    pointing this out.)
    > -- Fixed another backward-compatibility problem in which the (again)
    >    semantically erroneous but syntactically correct expression
    > 	36789.foo
    >    (an understandable typo for #6789.foo) stopped compiling when found in a
    >    database made by a pre-1.8.0 server.
    >

    I hope these do generate compile-time errors and aren't allowed
    through... it would be a travesty if we had to allow expressions that
    would be known to generate runtime errors at compile time.

    I can understand allowing them to compile when loading in a database
    (to keep an old db from choking) but they shouldn't be allowed to be
    entered anew.

    	-hpa

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- New patch release 1.8.0p5 of LambdaMOO server

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